Without these tools installed, micro will use an internal clipboard for copy and paste, but it won’t be accessible to external applications.
So I installed xclip through pamac, and did not notice the effect (expected was that copies from micro would show up in the KDE clipboard tray and that paste in micro would come from the KDE clipboard). Also on pamac I saw that a package ‘micro-manjaro’ was installed but that does not seem to relate to this cut & paste issue.
In ‘/usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/X’ a text file ‘_xclip’ exists, would that be involved in this?
How can the expected functions of copy/paste be achieved?
OK, so it must be possible to achieve cut and paste as intended. I re-installed micro.
Since I had not removed xclip the 2nd optional dependency is not offered by pamac I guess. But anyway, paste (from the kde clipboard) works as it already did, but copy from micro to that clipboard does not. On the open-issues of micro the same issue is mentioned several times.
In a virtualbox vm of Arch Linux I installed micro. same issue. then installed xclip. issue solved. In that instance the zsh shell is not installed. So now it seems that zsh is interfering with micro and the system clipboard. Interesting.